Hey all - My name is Marcus Jennings @Ezsaintlaurent and I am currently in my last year at SDSU majoring in Management. Over last summer, I worked on project management with two Clear Blue Sea subsystem teams - the Debris Collection Subsystem and the Solar Power Subsystem - to support the FRED prototype. I enjoyed learning the engineering life-cycle for how a prototype is designed and created. I also loved working with the engineering team and learning the different aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering needed for each project. But the craziest thing I learned was how massive the plastic pollution is in the oceans. I’ll be graduating from SDSU soon and plan to pursue a career in Project Management.

Social media has great potential to promote #OceanConservation . But it also brings new risks to ocean animals like: Harassment of marine life for photos, and over-tourism.
There's a simple solution to this, #respect wildlife instead of being selfish. (P.S. you should never touch wildlife underwater).

Galápagos Shark by the talented @darrenjew I’m a shark passionate. Whether we talk about abyssal shark species or more common ones (most seen and encounter), I’m always in awe of them and super excited to have a talk about my n°1 and only passion that has led me to protect the ocean at first 🦈 #galapagosshark#protectouroceans#marinelife#oceanconservation

Probably Not The Best Idea to be Halfway Out The Cage!🦈
Video courtesy of @bbcearth
FOLLOW us at @creatures_of_the_deep_ for more like this!
Some amazing footage of an approximately 10 foot male Great White around the cage!
The Males of shark species, in contrast to mammals, tend to be smaller than their Females counterparts. Females tend to be 15-16 feet, while Males average 11-13. It is not entirely understood the evolutionary purpose of this dimorphism, but our best hypothesis is that the females require the extra size for both carrying their young when pregnant, and to be able to both hunt and defend better when carrying.
The Female of the species is more deadly than the Male!

Reposted from @coextinctionfilm - We have a new look and a new website! ✨
Thank you to all of you that contributed to the final design of the logo, your input is appreciated 🙏
The meaning of the logo is “interconnectedness”. This is represented by an orca dorsal fin, layered with a salmon’s back, a river and the ocean. The dorsal fin is modelled off of J-50’s dorsal fin shape, as a reminder of resilience.
We hope you’ll enjoy exploring the website, and check out some of our new pages - like “The Pod”, events and our new store!
We’re sill making a few edits to improve the website’s content, speed and function.
Let’s make this week a good one 🤙🌊 #WeCoexist#wearetheorca#coextinction#coextinctionfilm#documentaryfilm#documentary#oceanconservation#southernresidentkillerwhale#srkw#orca#salishsea - #regrann

Octopus changing their colors, most people know they can do that. But changing the texture of their skin? 😳 Mind blown!! #Repost @octonation with @make_repost
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⚠️ The octopus has three dedicated types of muscles that control their on-call skin protrusions, or papillae. ⁣
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🤓 Skin papillae are muscular hydrostats similar to an elephant trunk or human tongue- octopus use them to further blend into their environments & throw off predators. ⁣⁣
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⭕️ One set are shaped in concentric circles to lift the skin vertically away from the body. (Can you see them in this video?) ⁣
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↔️ Another set pulls this form together, to determine the shape—whether it will be a round bump or tall spike. ⁣
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↕️ A third group seems to pull the raised section back toward the surface, spreading out its base.⁣
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Katherine Courage wrote, this "retraction is important for quickly smoothing the skin for reduced drag during swimming, particularly for escape."⁣
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You can see this octopus smooth out its skin before moving away just in case it needed to dart further faster. ⁣Yet another reason (if you needed one) that octopuses are the supreme spirit animal ☺️🐙😍) ⁣
🎥 video by: @benmantagilit (follow him!) ⁣
✍️ caption by: @octonation ⁣
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I find more of these on the beach than any other recognizable item (most of the garbage has been reduced to pieces and it’s original purpose can’t be identified). I’ve been pretty surprised at single use drinking bottles vs. personal containers used by visitors to the beach - I feel like having your own bottle is awesome not only for environmental reasons but because you can get a brightly colored bottled and totally put stickers on it 😍If you DO use single use bottles, please recycle. BUT - make sure you ask your local recycling facility about the caps. Some places take them, some places will only take them if they’re screwed on to the bottle, and some places won’t take them at all - make sure you check so you can avoid recycling contamination 😁

Closed till after 12 today. There’s a train coming to the station but it won’t be leaving. One reason tests showed our grey FADER wetsuit pattern will out perform others is how it works in any orientation. Not all like the kelp pattern, it was less effective horizontal compared to vertical.

We have a new look and a new website! ✨
Thank you to all of you that contributed to the final design of the logo, your input is appreciated 🙏
The meaning of the logo is “interconnectedness”. This is represented by an orca dorsal fin, layered with a salmon’s back, a river and the ocean. The dorsal fin is modelled off of J-50’s dorsal fin shape, as a reminder of resilience.
We hope you’ll enjoy exploring the website, and check out some of our new pages - like “The Pod”, events and our new store!
We’re sill making a few edits to improve the website’s content, speed and function.
Let’s make this week a good one 🤙🌊 #WeCoexist#wearetheorca#coextinction#coextinctionfilm#documentaryfilm#documentary#oceanconservation#southernresidentkillerwhale#srkw#orca#salishsea

So how’s everyone getting on with their New Year’s resolutions or is it better not to ask 😬🙈 Mine, to drastically cut down on single use plastic and stop buying bottles of water, has actually been a breeze thanks to my new Kruger bottle 🤩🙏🏻🌍 Who’s got one and is it helping you to cut out plastic bottles? 💧I’d love to hear 🤗